Using symbolic links in Windows 10

Posting this to remind me in the future.

I always like to keep my GitHub files syncronized with OneDrive but I also don’t like the long folder structure. I try to keep it short while keeping the benefits of storing my files in OneDrive by using symbolic links.

In this example I want to easily change the directory to C:\Github while actually browsing my OneDrive folder.

 mklink /D C:\Github 'C:\Users\myname\OneDrive\Documents\GitHub\'

Where:

/D - create symbolic link to directory option

C:\GitHub - symbolic link

C:\Users\myname\OneDrive\Documents\GitHub - symbolic link destination

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Reference:

• https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/be-more-efficient-and-better-organized-with-the-mklink-symbolic-link-tool/